Buccaneers fans seemed OK with the pat-downs they had to consent to Sunday before being allowed inside Raymond James Stadium, even though the security check added to their wait. ...more

October 13, 2008

Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, acting commander of U.S. Central Command, marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by addressing ROTC cadets at the University of South Florida. ...more

September 30, 2008

Seven years later, they still remember where they were that day. Marlene Rivera was sitting in her eighth-grade English class in Little Rock, Ark. ...more

September 12, 2008

On a day meant for remembrance, Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey took time to thank the next generation of soldiers likely to be called to fight. "You are entering a wartime military," Dempsey, acting commander of U.S. Central Command in Tampa, said this morning to ROTC cadets at the University of South Florida. ...more

September 11, 2008

Frustrated by repeated dead ends in the search for Osama bin Laden, U.S. and Pakistani officials said they are questioning long-held assumptions about their strategy and are shifting tactics to intensify the use of the lethal Predator drone spy plane in the mountains of western Pakistan. ...more

September 10, 2008

Who would have ever imagined that when it comes to dysfunctionality, the Hillsborough County School Board would make their Bowery Boys brethren over at the county commission look like the U.S. Central Command? ...more

July 31, 2008

TAMPA A combat veteran wounded during his third tour of Iraq was awarded the Purple Heart on Thursday during a ceremony at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital. ...more

July 17, 2008

Defense Secretary Robert Gates finished his sweeping transformation of the Army's top leadership Friday, with the nomination of two three-star generals to key command posts. ...more

July 12, 2008

Air Force Capt. Timothy O'Sullivan tried to gather himself. He had just regained consciousness. There was blood. A soldier was asking whether he was all right. He remembered little, sitting in a decimated British Warrior tank near Basra in southern Iraq. ...more

July 12, 2008

An officer -- coping with traumatic brain injury suffered in a blast in Iraq -- accepts a Bronze Star and Purple heart during a ceremony at MacDill Air Force Base. ...more

July 11, 2008